It was still sunny just now, but in the blink of an eye, it was gradually getting dark.

Fortunately, the rain is not heavy, the drizzle is numerous, the weather is slightly cool and windy, and it is the most suitable for hurrying.

Even if you are reluctant to give up, the time for separation will eventually come.

After staying in Fancheng for half a month, the biggest gain was to get to know Ji Xiaoyue, a girl who was led by Jiang Xiaoman, and Ji Xiaoyue helped him follow behind with his baggage.

The two men followed suit, but neither spoke.

Or maybe they have saved too many words, but they don't know how to say them.

Jiang Xiaoman didn't dare to speak first, for fear that he would be really reluctant to leave.

Before going out, Jiang Yao told him that this time he would definitely meet a lot of people, see a lot of scenery, and experience a lot of things.

Of course, there will be many separations, and even many life and death disasters.

This in itself is one of the purposes of this northward journey.

The son of the Jiang family is Suzaku.

Since it is a Vermilion Bird, it is destined to soar with its wings and soar for nine days, just like the first ancestor of the Jiang family.

Even if you can't open up the territory like your ancestors, you must have the ambition to swallow thousands of miles and have the world in mind.

When his father told him about it, Jiang Xiaoman didn't think about it so much, he just wanted to make a name for himself all the way north, so that he would be satisfied to be a famous hero in the Five Domains.

But when he really began to experience the parting that Jiang Yao said, he knew what it was like to be sad.

I can't describe it, I've never had it before.

It was as if there were thousands of ants crawling over the heart, constantly biting, some painful, some numb, and some itchy.

In the eyes, in the head, back and forth are all scenes of getting along with Ji Xiaoyue during this time.

The somewhat withered yellow hair, the big flickering eyes, and the two shallow dimples that would be exposed when he laughed fluttered in front of his eyes, making Jiang Xiaoman forget to breathe and think for a while.

Finally, he stopped, turned around, took the burden from the little girl who was walking forward with her head buried and almost bumped into his arms, gently reached out and rubbed the somewhat withered yellow hair, and said with a smile: "Okay, let's send it here." ”

"Send it again..."Ji Xiaoyue raised her head, turned her head and pursed her mouth, so that the young man could not see his red eyes, and said in a low voice.

"This has been sent out for more than ten miles, beware of encountering people who block the road and rob when you go back. The corners of Jiang Xiaoman's mouth pulled up a not-so-good-looking arc, and said with a chuckle: "However, I guess if the robbery meets you, I can't say who is unlucky." ”

"Nasty!" Ji Xiaoyue pursed her lips and choked up.

Jiang Xiaoman looked at the little girl quietly, thought about it, touched it in his arms, took out an inch-long dagger, stuffed it into Ji Xiaoyue's hand and pretended to be casual: "Oh, take it for self-defense, this generation of female snitches, there must be a weapon to take advantage of, right?"

This dagger, non-copper and non-iron, the material is like jade, but it is more transparent and sharp than jade, and the whole body is dark with metallic luster, and it is not ordinary at first glance.

Ji Xiaoyue took it in a daze, pinched it in her hand, and was a little at a loss.

Is this a parting token?

But generally not all of them give jade pendants, rings and jewelry, and the worst ones have to send a sachet comb!

This ginger worm is good, and he actually gave himself a dagger...

Thinking about it, as long as it is given by Jiang Xiaoworm, no matter what it is, she will cherish it.

Moreover, this dagger looks quite sharp, and it can be used as a kitchen knife when she turns around, the little girl was stunned, and she thought about it, but she was not so sad.

If Jiang Yao knew that in order to defend his son, the Spirit Treasure Dragon Slaying Dagger that he had worked so hard to get from an old ancestor in Yandi City was about to be taken by Ji Xiaoyue to cut vegetables, and he didn't know what his expression would be.

Naturally, Jiang Xiaoman gave it, and the little girl was reluctant to really take it to cut vegetables, and she was not annoyed to carry it in her arms day and night.

Seeing that Ji Xiaoyue finally laughed, Jiang Xiaoman also laughed, he stretched out a finger and poked the shallow dimple, and laughed softly: "Ji Xiaoyue, you still look more beautiful when you laugh." ”

"Annoying, you haven't seen me cry before!" Ji Xiaoyue shook her head and patted the finger that poked her dimple, she was finally able to understand the feeling of poking someone's eyebrows at the beginning, and rolled her eyes and said happily.

Jiang Xiaoman shook his head and smiled, I have naturally seen it, but you don't know.

Thinking that when he leaned on the roof last night and peeked at Ji Xiaoyue, this girl would cry, the feeling of crawling like ten thousand ants in his heart became even stronger.

It's just that the pain is more than the itching.

Looking at the pair of dimples, Jiang Xiaoman suddenly remembered that he didn't know which book he had read from before, or where he had heard the legend about dimples.

Legend has it that after a person died, he passed the ghost gate and went to Huangquan Road.

On the road, there are flowers on the other side that only see flowers but no leaves, and the flowers and leaves do not see each other.

This flower is watered with the yellow spring water in the Lechuan River, and on the Lechuan River, there is a Nai He Bridge, and at the end of the bridge there are six mirror-like lakes, which are the six reincarnations.

There was a woman named Meng Po who was waiting on the bridge, and it was the Yellow Spring ferryman, who would hand a bowl of Meng Po soup to everyone who crossed the bridge.

Anyone who has drunk Meng Po soup will forget all the ties in this life and this life, and enter the six realms of reincarnation without worry, either as an immortal, or as a human being, or as an animal.

However, drinking Meng Po soup also means that the love, hatred, and hatred in this life, the ups and downs of a lifetime, are all forgotten with this bowl of Meng Po soup.

Those who are concerned in this life and those who hate will not know each other in the next life.

But there are so many people who, for various reasons, are unwilling to drink Meng Po soup.

Meng Po had no choice but to promise them, but she made a mark on these people, which either left a dimple on the face or a mole on the chest.

These people must jump into the Lechuan River, wait for thousands of years to be reincarnated by flooding and fire, and after reincarnation, they will carry the memories of their previous lives, with dimples and moles on their chests, to find the people who were bound by their previous lives.

Jiang Xiaoman felt that this legend should be true, because since there are really immortals in this world, then there must also be an underworld.

Compared to the two shallow dimples on his face, he actually wanted to see if there was really a mole on the little girl's chest.

Of course, I just dare to think about it, if I really say it, I will definitely be beaten, and most of them will be treated as an obscene embryo.

He just wanted to know, who would be Ji Xiaoyue, the girl who would rather be flooded by a thousand years of water and fire than wait for reincarnation in her previous life?

The two of them walked forward for more than twenty miles, and they were about to leave the boundary of Fancheng before they went.

It was only noon when he came out, and now the sun was gradually setting in the west.

The dark clouds dispersed, and the sunlight shone down, stretching the shadows of the two people on the ground, intertwining back and forth.

The more you move forward, the more reluctant you are, but after all, it's still the time to really part.

Ji Xiaoyue touched Xiaobai's mane, said goodbye to the young man in front of her softly, and stopped and didn't step forward to follow.

She smiled, but her eyes reddened.

Jiang Xiaoman turned his back, turned over and got on the horse, did not turn around and waved his hand behind him, and secretly said goodbye in his heart, and gently clamped the horse's belly with his pedals, and the dust gradually disappeared in the sunset.

Sometimes, goodbye is not a parting, but a promise.

The little girl just stood like that, standing under the pear tree, with a smile and tears as she watched Jiang Xiaoman's back turn from near to far, and finally into a small black dot, and finally, she couldn't even see the little black dot.

She pinched the jade-like dagger and swung it vigorously in the air, giggling again.

"When I pass by the sea, the sea doesn't speak, and I can't hear an answer when I walk through the mountains!" Ji Xiaoyue wiped her eyes, put the dagger in her arms, and held it closely, humming a little song happily, with her hands behind her back, bouncing in the direction she came.

Goose!

A small gray and white donkey sprang out of the woods and meekly approached Ji Xiaoyue with his head.

"Little Gray Gray, where are you going!" Ji Xiaoyue asked with a smile as she tugged at the little donkey's long fluffy ears.

Goose!

The little donkey shook its hooves and motioned for Ji Xiaoyue to sit up.

"Giggles, even if you have a little conscience, you have a conscience better than Jiang Xiaoworm, and you don't know how to say goodbye in the end!" The little girl smiled, jumped on the back of the donkey with her toes lightly on the ground, sat sideways and patted the little gray buttocks, and said happily: "Sit tight, let's go!"

Goose!

The little donkey squeaked softly, and then the four hooves shook off, which was not much slower than that of Luma Xiaobai, but it was not stable at all.

"I rode the little donkey one step at a time, ticking and ticking, and I never wanted to go home when I glanced into the distance!"

The little girl's ethereal singing echoed through the mountains, crisp like a lark, with a string of silver bell-like giggles.

Come to think of it, the ghost mother-in-law should also come back from the mountain.

If you see yourself completely restored, the old guy will be happy.

There was no need for her old man to worry and be scared because of herself, the little girl sat on the back of the little donkey and thought happily.

Unbeknownst to the two teenagers, in the place where they had just separated, the void was distorted, and then several figures slowly walked out.

"Xiao Man'er, this stinky boy is really generous, and even the dragon slaying dagger that Lao Tzu worked so hard to deceive from the fifth uncle ancestor was taken out and given away. However, this is up to me, and a man should be atmospheric!" Jiang Yao patted the shoulder of the middle-aged man next to him, and asked with a chuckle: "How is it?"

"Hehe, it's her blessing that Xiaoyue can know Xiaoman. Ji Heng looked into the distance, staring at Ji Xiaoyue's back, and said softly.

"I really don't want to go back and take a look, after being apart for so long, it's okay to talk to Xiaoyue!" Lin Mei glanced at her husband, and then asked Ji Heng: "Xiaoyue told me before that she has missed you as a father all these years, and now that Zisu is gone, you have to do your duty as a father." ”

"No, I'm afraid that this time I will go back, I really don't want to go again. Ji Heng shook his head lightly and smiled bitterly: "There is a secret letter from the clan, saying that the deepest part of the Beihai Netherworld Death Row has become more and more frequent recently, and I am afraid that the seal that suppressed that big man has been loosened." This time, fortunately, the county lord came to the rescue, which completely made me the biggest concern in my life, and it was time to return to the clan to fulfill my responsibility as the lord of the netherworld. ”

"Count the time, it's time to rearrange those seals!" Jiang Yao touched his chin, nodded, glanced at Ji Heng and chuckled: "I didn't expect that this generation of Beihai Netherworld Prison Master would be you." ”

As the supreme Jiang clan in the Southern Regions, he knew that the secrets of heaven and earth were naturally no less than Ji Heng, on the contrary, maybe more.

For example, although Ji Heng knew what was being suppressed in the deep prison of their Beihai Guohai right now, he didn't know what was going on in the underground of the barren grassland in the Southern Regions...

Ji Heng nodded and sighed, but the heavy pupils that should have been golden were full of wind and frost: "If you compare my life to playing chess, I have made too many wrong moves in my life." Every wrong step is the loss of something precious. ”

"This time, I don't want to make a mistake again, and I don't dare to make a mistake again, if I can't even protect the land of Kyushu, what face will I have to protect the little moon. ”

"It's okay, the little moon is on the border with me and my husband to take care of, you can settle down. Lin Mei used to be the county lord of the Wood Demon Clan of the Guixu Country, so she naturally understood what the two of them were saying, she nodded and said softly: "Remember, help me put two sunflowers in front of the Zisu grave, her favorite is sunflowers during her lifetime." ”

"Definitely!" Ji Heng solemnly agreed, and smiled reluctantly: "This is to leave, maybe we will never see each other again, if so, I mean if it is true that Xiaoyue can really be the daughter-in-law of the Jiang family in the future, please bear with me..."

Watching Ji Heng tear open the void and disappear, the husband and wife couldn't help but smile at each other.

After learning that Zi Su asked Ji Heng to tell her before she died, the knot in her heart that had been condensed in Lin Mei's chest for many years was finally untied, making her feel that even her breathing was smoother.

"Although I also like Xiaoyue very much, but Moli that child..."Lin Mei leaned her head on Jiang Yao's arms and said softly, as if talking to herself, and seemed to be asking her husband about some headaches.

"There was once a worldly attained master who once said to me that each of these people has their own fate and law, just like a thousand rivers that will eventually flow to the sea, no matter how they run endlessly, they are all destined. ”

Jiang Yao reached out and touched his wife's smooth forehead, and said softly: "So, Nizi, don't think about it so much, the children have their own fate, we just need to watch silently from the sidelines, if we really meet a hurdle, we can help it, and leave the rest to God..."

"Immeasurable Heavenly Venerable, two, why don't the children of the Lan family be taught by the poor Dao for ten years?"

Just as the husband and wife were about to step into the void and return to Suzaku City, a loud voice sounded behind them.

"It's you..."

Jiang Yao turned around, and when he saw who was coming, his pupils couldn't help but shrink and he said silently.

It was the old Taoist who had helped the two teenagers in Vermilion Bird City approve their lives, and he looked at Jiang Yao with a purple gold whisk in his hand and laughed softly: "When I said goodbye, I didn't expect that now you, the little guy, will be able to take charge on your own, what did the two of you say?"

Jiang Yao looked at Lin Mei, gave his wife a reassuring look, and then respectfully bowed to the old Taoist: "Being able to favor my predecessors is naturally a blessing for my daughter, but in the past ten years..."

"Haha, don't worry, ten years later, I will give you back a Jiang family who is not inferior to any Tianjiao in this world. The old Taoist priest stroked his beard and laughed.

"That's it, it's very good!" Jiang Yao naturally heard the meaning of the old Taoist Jiang family's strangeness, put his mind at ease, and then pulled Lin Mei together and bowed respectfully to the Taoist.

Lao Dao nodded and chuckled: "I have also seen your little Vermilion Bird, the fortune is deep and rare in the world, if he gets the fate and the law one day, immortality may not be unexpected!"

After speaking, the old Taoist priest waved the dust in his hand, and disappeared without a trace.

"Jiang Yao thanked his predecessors for the good words of my little man!" Jiang Yao was overjoyed when he heard this, bent down deeply, and made a big salute in the direction where the Taoist disappeared.

"Husband, who was this senior just now?" Lin Mei was a little puzzled, although the old Tao could make her husband so respectful, the origin must be extraordinary, but she couldn't help but be a little curious about the identity of that person.

"A master of the world who should not exist in this world. Jiang Yao hugged his wife's shoulders and said softly, "Regarding fate and law, he told me many years ago. ”

I thought I should have risen a long time ago, but I didn't want to meet it in the land of Kyushu now.

Come to think of it, the predecessor hasn't found the fate and method that has long become an obsession in his mouth...

Lin Mei nodded obediently and stopped talking, with Jiang Yao by her side, she was not very willing to think about it by herself.

Turning her head to look in the direction of Xiao Man'er's departure, she murmured in a low voice: "Xiao Man'er, even if your clothes are stained with blood this time you travel thousands of miles north, my mother still hopes that when you return, you will still be as carefree as you were at the beginning, and you will still be a teenager..."